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So I have my queue set to run out on Sunday the 16th, and I’m probably going to unfollow everyone I’ve found on other platforms, everyone who isn’t a mutual, everyone who I don’t interact with at all, and I’m just going to leave it so my Tumblr dash is those of you who haven’t given me any alternate contact but who I don’t want to lose track of. So I’ll pare that way down; I’ll probably start unfollowing people soon. @unicornduke mentioned how much time it frees up to no longer scroll Tumblr endlessly taking in the firehose of reduplicated constantly-updating shit, and I admit, my DW Reading List pretty much fills that niche in a quarter of the time and about a thousandth of the wank. (I had my Tumblr dash pretty curated but I still saw a lot of you noble souls leaping to defense of people who were getting wanked about, and that’s noble, but not strictly necessary, in terms of picking battles, for me to be reading the defenses, you know? For the record I’ve had the phrase “q slur” blocked for like two years now, and if any of y’all used it unironically I had y’all blocked too, for fuckin’ real.)
After the 17th I’ll probably take a little Tumblr break, and then re-evaluate– how many of you all are left here, whether the site is really still worth looking at, etc.
I do know my presence on Pillowfort will probably be minimal. The recent clarification to their TOS has pretty well convinced most of the knowledgeable veterans I know that these people don’t know what the fuck they’re doing. Putting anything subject to interpretation right out there into the TOS is just demanding wank. And I’m tired, and I don’t want to see it. Literally anyone who has done this before could have told them not to do this, and there they are doing it: not only do they not know what the fuck they’re doing, they also can’t even take fucking advice about it. So forget that. It’s a shame, I was interested to see where it went, but I don’t need any more drama factories, I’m old and tired and fucking sick of the way people like to police women’s bodies and sexual expression especially. You’re really gonna fling yourself into the aftermath of “female-presenting nipples” with a fuckass stupid phrase like “appear to be underage” followed up with “discretion of the moderator”– oh my god it’s like none of the struggles which have come before ye even happened? We are not allowed to learn from history, we are only going to assume that we know better than those dumb old biddies. Fantastic. (And it’s not just the TOS… it’s things like accessibility, best practices, the rest of it. Christ on a popsicle stick. Nope.)
Some of y’all, that’s the contact info I have for you, so I’ll poke in there a while, but like. I’m not gonna get invested just to watch it burn down when the inevitable bad-faith exploitation of “discretion of the moderator” meltdown occurs.
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So I have my queue set to run out on Sunday the 16th, and I’m probably going to unfollow everyone I’ve found on other platforms, everyone who isn’t a mutual, everyone who I don’t interact with at all, and I’m just going to leave it so my Tumblr dash is those of you who haven’t given me any alternate contact but who I don’t want to lose track of. So I’ll pare that way down; I’ll probably start unfollowing people soon. @unicornduke mentioned how much time it frees up to no longer scroll Tumblr endlessly taking in the firehose of reduplicated constantly-updating shit, and I admit, my DW Reading List pretty much fills that niche in a quarter of the time and about a thousandth of the wank. (I had my Tumblr dash pretty curated but I still saw a lot of you noble souls leaping to defense of people who were getting wanked about, and that’s noble, but not strictly necessary, in terms of picking battles, for me to be reading the defenses, you know? For the record I’ve had the phrase “q slur” blocked for like two years now, and if any of y’all used it unironically I had y’all blocked too, for fuckin’ real.)
After the 17th I’ll probably take a little Tumblr break, and then re-evaluate– how many of you all are left here, whether the site is really still worth looking at, etc.
I do know my presence on Pillowfort will probably be minimal. The recent clarification to their TOS has pretty well convinced most of the knowledgeable veterans I know that these people don’t know what the fuck they’re doing. Putting anything subject to interpretation right out there into the TOS is just demanding wank. And I’m tired, and I don’t want to see it. Literally anyone who has done this before could have told them not to do this, and there they are doing it: not only do they not know what the fuck they’re doing, they also can’t even take fucking advice about it. So forget that. It’s a shame, I was interested to see where it went, but I don’t need any more drama factories, I’m old and tired and fucking sick of the way people like to police women’s bodies and sexual expression especially. You’re really gonna fling yourself into the aftermath of “female-presenting nipples” with a fuckass stupid phrase like “appear to be underage” followed up with “discretion of the moderator”– oh my god it’s like none of the struggles which have come before ye even happened? We are not allowed to learn from history, we are only going to assume that we know better than those dumb old biddies. Fantastic. (And it’s not just the TOS… it’s things like accessibility, best practices, the rest of it. Christ on a popsicle stick. Nope.)
Some of y’all, that’s the contact info I have for you, so I’ll poke in there a while, but like. I’m not gonna get invested just to watch it burn down when the inevitable bad-faith exploitation of “discretion of the moderator” meltdown occurs.
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Date: 2018-12-13 12:06 pm (UTC)And yeah, that would have been a more sensible way to go about it and idk, it seems like the intuitive, business-friendly one? Like *waves hands* its basic fucking logic, goddammit. You at LEAST inform the person and give them time to respond to the TOS update.
What gets to me more than anything else is the apparent absence of a flagging and review email! Even Tumblr does that! Even Tumblr has clarity on what the process on a TOS appeal is - but here's the thing, Pillowfort doesn't even HAVE a flag, review and blog deletion policy in their TOS. And I'm going to keep harping about this till I go to my grave, probably, but I emailed them about this months ago when that person - menderash - made that "lol this is totes not a callout but here's someone doing gross content on the pillowfort" post to BetaUsers thing (and people were talking about compiling communities that "encouraged" "gross" content) and they never got back to me. They had every opportunity to clarify and they didn't. It really comes across as though they think this is like running a small self-moderated LJ community but marketing themselves as the alternate to tumblr.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Doesn't exactly give me much reassurance that they're going to be able to reinforce the TOS in any coherent and reasonable way.
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Date: 2018-12-13 12:32 pm (UTC)EXACTLY. Like, there are some communities I've been involved with where there was totally subjective shit, and it just had to be like that, but at least I knew there were some pretty efficient/fair/ruthless types at the helm who would be reasonably impartial. It's never a good situation, but if everyone has reason to have faith, then it's tolerable.
The first times I saw anything negative about Pillowfort I totally was like aww you big meanies be nice!!! and I look back on that and have to kind of put my head down on my desk. Like... oh.
You can pull the "aw they're just getting started out!" card for like. A month. maybe. It's been years now. I have been seeing posts about this for years. They're not just getting started out, at this point they have a lot of people's money and have made no attempt to follow any industry-standard best practices about anything.
They totally think it's the same as having a private little LJ comm for their friends only with real money and bigger, and they're totally going to try to make everyone on it be friends.
:( :( :(
WE WERE ALL ROOTING FOR YOU
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Date: 2018-12-13 06:19 pm (UTC)Same! I was prepared to defend them and give them the benefit of the doubt, till recently but between the security shutdown and this - and what feels like a complete lack of transparency and communication (so. much. corporate. speak.) they're kind of making it hard for anyone to keep cheering them on.
Maybe if they showed some kind of responsiveness, or transparency! But, well. Either they learn from this or they tank.